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by jcbrand 4y ago
> And this is exactly why "tripping" is heavily frowned upon by serious meditators and spiritual practitioners. This is needlessly judgmental. I know life-long meditators, 30+ of years disciplined practice who sometimes take ps
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by jcbrand 4y ago
Fascinating how nowadays people are excusing clearly unethical (and sometimes criminal) behavior and instead decide to blame it on something nebulous such as the "system". While it might be true that Joe felt pressure to lie due t
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by jcbrand 4y ago
Higher uncertainty obviously influences a risk-benefit analysis. If there is higher uncertainty about the validity of the purported benefits as well as the claimed safety, then it might very well be fine to decide to not participate in some
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by jcbrand 4y ago
If the current clinical trials find potential negative consequences, that hardly helps the people who already took the vaccines, many who were pressured against their will. If skepticism is warranted, then it's wrong to be pressured to
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by jcbrand 4y ago
The MRNA vaccines that were introduced were novel and used a mechanism that hasn't been used at scale before and without long term human studies. And increased amount of skepticism in such a case is completely warranted.
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by jcbrand 4y ago
> so I hung out in the lobby for several hours waiting for anyone brave enough to get me to the badge people Did you consider asking someone going in or out to help you get a badge or to put you into contact with the right person? Sounds
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by jcbrand 4y ago
> I fear that allowing private/venture capital to intervene will further solidify existing discrimination issues in the long term, even if it may show quick improvements short term South Africa's discrimination issues are large
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by jcbrand 4y ago
South Africans would be overjoyed to have stable electricity and clean water to the extent that Germans have. The problems Europeans complain about are on a much higher level and can't be compared to having 2 to 4 hours blackouts every
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by jcbrand 4y ago
Eskom in South Africa provides about 90% of the electricity and is a state owned enterprise. It's not privatized at all, it's a state-owned monopoly. So basically the exact opposite of what you're complaining about. Privatiza
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by jcbrand 4y ago
Copying is not and will never be theft.
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by jcbrand 4y ago
Disclaimer: speaking only of Bitcoin, the utility of the larger crypto space is somewhat questionable. Yes, there will always be a need for trust, and Bitcoin doesn't change that. What it does is actually facilitate more, rather than l
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by jcbrand 4y ago
If we divide out the US defense budget to the threats it faces, Russia would perhaps be of the order of $100bn-150bn in spend-to-threat. So spending just $40bn a year, erodes a threat value of $100-150bn, a two-to-three time return Does t
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by jcbrand 4y ago
If you have a metric, eventually it'll be gamed.
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by jcbrand 4y ago
This happens on both sides of the spectrum. For the left the common enemy is often greedy exploitative capitalists. For the right it's often socialists and/or communists.
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by jcbrand 4y ago
However, governments across the globe are run by people who lack the proper morals or intelligence to see what needs to be done. So we should just put you in charge and then you'll sort it out? Have you considered the possibility tha
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by jcbrand 4y ago
IMO the way to do it is to make certain tasks a bit more enjoyable. I mainly listen to podcasts when cleaning, washing the dishes, doing the laundry or driving long distances. Compared to the vapid nonsense coming from radio DJs, many podca
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by jcbrand 4y ago
(After work) I sometimes lie on the couch with my laptop on my stomach. Having to do everything via the keyboard and CLI (I even disabled my touchpad) became a hassle and over time I slowly started using the mouse and GUIs again.
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by jcbrand 4y ago
I went through a CLI phase were I tried to do everything there, including calendar, sideshows, email etc. The thing that makes Kanban useful is the collaboration in a team. I doubt a whole team would agree to use this tool though.
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by jcbrand 4y ago
Transactions are moving to layer 2 solutions like the lightning network. Individual lightning transactions are not recorded on the blockchain and are not subject to chain analysis.
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by jcbrand 4y ago
When you have no connections, no resources, no work history in the field Sounds like you took a job at roughly the market rate (for what you're offering), not below market rate. Just because some developers earn a lot, doesn't m
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by jcbrand 4y ago
Operating expenses force miners to spend at least some of their earned coins. Depreciation also means that you need to periodically recapitalize. With PoS, without significant operating expenses, you can simply use your earnings to perpetua
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by jcbrand 4y ago
You're arguing against a point I never made.
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by jcbrand 4y ago
Open source has been used for risk management rather than idealism for probably about 20 years now.
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by jcbrand 4y ago
The energy expenditure anchors the money into the real world, making it a hard money like Gold, and it also facilitates decentralization. Energy is naturally decentralized all over the world. A "tax to energy companies" is a subs
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by jcbrand 4y ago
The vast majority of stakers won't use their own hardware, but will stake with exchanges like Kraken and Coinbase.
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by jcbrand 4y ago
They're arguments why PoS is centralizing.
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by jcbrand 4y ago
With PoW you had capital expenditure, but also operational expenditure (e.g. electricity costs). Your capital also depreciates over time. With PoS, you don't have any operational expenditure, and the sticker price of your capital expen
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by jcbrand 4y ago
Pos is controlled by those with the most money, and they continuously gain more money through staking rewards (i.e. the rich control the system and automatically get richer). With PoW, you have to sell/spend some of the coins you earn
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by jcbrand 4y ago
Sounds to me like you are actually a competent developer with relevant knowledge and that the problem lies elsewhere. As you've mentioned in the title, you're depressed. Go and see a therapist and if you can, take a break from wor
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by jcbrand 4y ago
> That’s actually an argument against bitcoin - not against the internet I'm not making an argument against the Internet. :) The internet already had utility back when everyone used dialup, and Bitcoin already has utility now and is

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